American - Author | December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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